The Download: ice-melting robots, and genetically modified trees

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Life-seeking, ice-melting robots could punch through Europa’s icy shell At long last, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is on its way. It launched on October 14 and is now en route to its target: Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa, whose frozen shell almost certainly conceals a warm saltwater ocean. When the spacecraft gets there, it will conduct dozens of close flybys in order to determine what that ocean is like…

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